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WaPo: Guns May Serve Defensive Purpose, but CDC Must Confirm
breitbart ^ | Jan. 21, 2015 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 01/22/2015 7:42:29 AM PST by PROCON

On January 16, The Washington Post (WaPo) reported that guns may serve a defensive purpose—that defensive gun uses may be slightly higher than 3 million each year—but we will not know until the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) begin their research into guns as a public health issue.

WaPo quoted a New American Magazine article which said, “Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; cdc; gungrabbers
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To: KeyLargo
FTA: FOX TAMPA – According to the sheriff’s office, Michael Foster, 43, saw Clarence Daniels, 62, in the Walmart parking lot with a gun holstered under his coat.

Reminds me why I avoid that place - attracts too many morons of every stripe.

21 posted on 01/22/2015 9:13:41 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: PROCON

There is no way to measure how many crimes are prevented because criminals fear running into an armed citizen. Any suggestion that armed citizens are not a major deterrence is laughable.


22 posted on 01/22/2015 9:14:57 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: PROCON

Do guns defend us from tyranny? That is why they added the Second Amendment.


23 posted on 01/22/2015 9:19:02 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: PROCON
The CDC is a leftist agenda driven political creation. Their "conclusion" has already been decided. Their supporters will fund work that supports the per-conceived result.
24 posted on 01/22/2015 10:27:22 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin
The CDC is a leftist agenda driven political creation. Their "conclusion" has already been decided.

That is so much malarky, I don't know where to begin. If they were as you stated, I would have nothing to do with them. I'm in the know, and I can tell you, you will be surprised at the high number of conservatives in their ranks (at least in Atlanta). Furthermore, when ordered to do an anti-gun study by Obama, they simply used the real numbers and the real science and would not produce what was ordered. The result was, instead, a (slightly) progun result. The study was, of course, immediately buried by the media.

25 posted on 01/22/2015 10:32:56 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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